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ShinyStar said:
What new agency has Trump created to replace USAID? What new initiative has been instituted in the place of DEI? What massive hiring spree has started to install new stooges? If your argument is that DOGE is Trump's new swamp, then you are a few fries short of a happy meal. DOGE is aimed at the government, and not the average citizen, and the whole idea of government keeping itself in check via institutions that are at odds with each other was exactly what the Founding Fathers were trying to institute in order to prevent tyranny.
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You are using a one-track mind. What do billionaires want? Less taxes on them and less regulation. They're getting both in the new admin.'s goals. Do they care that it's at the expense of social systems that *absolutely* work? No, no they do not care. Do you care that at this moment, Trump is trying to circumvent the idea of checks and balances with the absolute power the executive branch is currently wielding? This is simple middle school social studies stuff. If the DoGE were actually looking into government corruption, they'd look at PPP loan fraud? When Trump first got into office, Elon talked about looking into the California High Speed Rail, and why it's been delayed for almost a decade and way over budget, I'm sure they will find that it might have something to do with Elon's Hyperloop literally being made to take away money and time from said HSR program.

I don't understand why you guys are expecting so much from people who have ripped the average person off. Please, get some self-agency, think for yourself.

But here let me give you some highlights of the rich assholes who are gonna drain the swamp.

Scott Bessent:​

At Treasury, he will play key roles in selling and implementing a number of Trump’s signature policies: reinstating the 2017 tax cuts tilted to corporations and wealthy individuals,
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Reich, the former labor secretary, noted that Bessent and his fellow wealthy Cabinet designees stand to benefit personally from Trump’s tax ideas. Trump tax policies, which helped widen the deficit in Trump’s first term, are juxtaposed with Bessent’s warnings about the dangers of rising U.S. debt and the cost of annual interest payments to the government’s bond holders.
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Kelly Loeffler​

The Georgia businesswoman named to lead the Small Business Administration was the wealthiest member of the Senate during her brief stay on Capitol Hill. Loeffler is married to Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, the publicly traded firm that owns the New York Stock Exchange. That’s not the center of commerce for the SBA’s usual clientele. The agency was founded in 1953 and describes itself as “the only cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business” by providing “counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.”

As a senator, Loeffler faced ethics complaints over alleged insider trading tied to stock trades she and her husband made as members of Congress first started receiving briefings related to the coronavirus pandemic. The trades occurred weeks before the pandemic caused markets to plummet. Justice Department and Senate inquiries later found no wrongdoing on Loeffler’s part.
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cakeiie said:
Why would the glowies think it is smart to post about the inner workings of their job, isn't that a national security risk or what?
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They're only glowies under the most literal definition of the term, we're mostly dealing with losers from toothless and/or redundant bureacracies like USAID, DoEd, etc. They only posting on feddit during billable hours because they deserve what's coming to them. The guys who actually get paid to troll forums are too busy trying to provoke retards into committing massacres on /pol/ and the incel forums to complain about being held accountable on reddit.

Anyways, I'm seeing people on /r/FedNews talking about moving to /r/FedDiscussion because the mods are going on their typical reddit-mod-powertrip and censoring anything that goes against their coup larp. I can't say for sure if this is true because i havent posted anything on /r/fednews, but my experience with reddit is that the mods always get drunk with power so it's probably true. It would certainly explain why nobody on fednews is showing any interest in taking the severance offer; even if 90% of them are too self-righteous to take them up on it, there should still be a fair amount of posts coming from the other 10% but I haven't seen a single one.
 
Delaware 14 said:
Do you care that at this moment, Trump is trying to circumvent the idea of checks and balances with the absolute power the executive branch is currently wielding? This is simple middle school social studies stuff.
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Was anyone else concerned for the past 9 years? Remember "hope and change", "I've got a pen and a phone"? Did people honestly think that pushing the boundaries would stop with Obama? Everyone is fine with the tools being used until it's someone they don't agree with.

Shit doesn't just appear uphill to roll down. Someone has to push the shit uphill first.
 
I'm really a fan of the DOGE decision to shut down the Bureau of Consumer Protection. I've always dreamed of a day where predatory lenders and Jewish banks were able to prey on the mostly financially illiterate masses of American workers. The laws passed by Congress to mitigate these predatory practices will obviously enforce themselves without a department funded to do so.

I remember the joys of my parents losing their house when lenders weren't required to make a good faith attempt to resolve issues regarding missed payments, or allowed to issue refinancing loans which the debter was incapable of repaying. Specifically to acquire an appreciating asset.
 
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macrodegenerate said:
I'm really a fan of the DOGE decision to shut down the Bureau of Consumer Protection. I've always dreamed of a day where predatory lenders and Jewish banks were able to prey on the mostly financially illiterate masses of American workers. The laws passed by Congress to mitigate these predatory practices will obviously enforce themselves without a department funded to do so.
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Oh please, it’s a make-work program for more useless bureaucrats.
America already has world leading prevention measures against greedy bankers. It’s called “bankruptcy”.

I can’t think of another country where anyone too irresponsible to manage their finances get a get out of jail free-card, that can even be used time after time.
Delaware 14 said:
I don't understand why you guys are expecting so much from people who have ripped the average person off. Please, get some self-agency, think for yourself.

But here let me give you some highlights of the rich assholes who are gonna drain the swamp.
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Ah, so Trump is hiring folks from the works of business for business related positions?

Instead of a toxic, Marxist dwarf like Robert Reich? Terrible and such!

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macrodegenerate said:
I'm really a fan of the DOGE decision to shut down the Bureau of Consumer Protection. I've always dreamed of a day where predatory lenders and Jewish banks were able to prey on the mostly financially illiterate masses of American workers. The laws passed by Congress to mitigate these predatory practices will obviously enforce themselves without a department funded to do so.

I remember the joys of my parents losing their house when lenders weren't required to make a good faith attempt to resolve issues regarding missed payments, or allowed to issue refinancing loans which the debter was incapable of repaying. Specifically to acquire an appreciating asset.
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I can't believe Trump's actions have allowed banks to behave in a predatory manner, whereas before they were perfectly fair and would always give you a square deal. I can only imagine the interest rates, which up until now where perfectly fair and reasonable, might suddenly and unexpectedly become high for the first time in years. I, for one, am shocked to my core that we're entering an era where money-lenders might become predatory, which they certainly haven't been until now.
 
that_monika said:
I can't believe Trump's actions have allowed banks to behave in a predatory manner, whereas before they were perfectly fair and would always give you a square deal. I can only imagine the interest rates, which up until now where perfectly fair and reasonable, might suddenly and unexpectedly become high for the first time in years. I, for one, am shocked to my core that we're entering an era where money-lenders might become predatory, which they certainly haven't been until now.
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It's not just about fair deals. We're talking opening up random accounts under customers names they never consented to, or blatantly disregarding federal regulations. This doesn't just affect people who fell for predatory practices. It's enforcing the law when companies break it, and it negatively effects the people who they trusted to do business with.
 
Fapcop said:
America already has world leading prevention measures against greedy bankers. It’s called “bankruptcy”.

I can’t think of another country where anyone too irresponsible to manage their finances get a get out of jail free-card, that can even be used time after time.
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Not just bankruptcy, it is remarkably easy to evade debt collection (outside of government debt and secured debt like mortgages) in the US compared to say Europe, where it is far easier to get a court order for a bailiff to literally waltz into your house and start seizing furniture or freeze your bank accounts.
 
Fapcop said:
I can’t think of another country where anyone too irresponsible to manage their finances get a get out of jail free-card, that can even be used time after time.
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It’s because, at the time it was implemented, England had these things called “debtor’s prisons,” wherein you were essentially enslaved until you worked off your debt (you never would). In line with the rest of the US’s founding being “look at what the English did and do the exact opposite,” it was concluded that “the risk of loaning money is you may not get it back,” was a better alternative (it is).
 
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